Who is this King of Glory? [Facsimile] [Paperback]

Alvin Boyd Kuhn (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1992

A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah Tradition. "This book is the narrative of what happened back in the third century of Christian history, when the Christian movement passed over from the hands of the Philosophers of the Greek world into those of the unphilosophical and worldly minded Romans and suffered the total extinction of its original light of esoteric spiritual meaning, the historical result of which was the sixteen centuries of the Dark Ages. This book is the natural companion and complement of The Lost Light." Contents: Faith Weds Folly; Myth Truer than History; Truth Wears A Mask; Wisdom Haunts the Countryside; Fancy's Fabric Turns into History; Cannonized Romanticism; Throes of a Bad Conscience; Sublime Myth Makes Grotesque History; Faith's Odd Wonderland; Cosmic Majesty with Local Items; Staggering Truth on Egypt's Walls; The Shout of Paul's Silence; Robbing Paul to Pay Peter; A Queen Dethroned; A Star-And Luna; An Epochal Discovery; Truth Exorcises Demoniac Obsessions; The Anointing of Man; Lost Cycles of the Sun; Twelve Lamps of deity; Orion and His Dog; Our Day-Star Rises.

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• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC; Facsimile edition edition (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156459176X
• ISBN-13: 978-1564591760
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I have ever read!, March 5, 2001

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David Teubner - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who is this King of Glory? (Paperback)

Alvin Boyd Kuhn really gets his facts straight when he reviews Christianity's origins as being not from Palestine, but ancient Egypt! Alvin Boyd Kuhn describes the myths of Egypt and demonstrates the fact that Jesus of Nazareth is a typical savior-type, which was quite common to the ancient mind. His pronouncement that Jesus is non-historical is not presented to destroy Christianity but to unlock the secret meaning and by doing so introduce the reader into the deeper meaning of the Gospels.

This book is not intended for the individual who is content with the common view of a historical Jesus but for the individual who struggles with a faith that seems like an impossibility. I would recommend this book to any theologian or spiritual seeker.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Consciousness for Divinity Within, May 7, 2005

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Max Eden "Maxie" (Sydney Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who is this King of Glory? (Paperback)

This book is a must read for anyone with an inquiring mind. Kuhn conclusively documents that the sublime wisdom embodied in Greek myth and Bible allegory is still not interpreted correctly by the western mind. As such, it will prove to be the weightiest psychological indictment of ignorance that history will present against the Christian civilization of this age. Indeed it is the root cause of conflict within and between societies - causing an unwarranted schism between conservatives and progressives.

He documents the source of the NT typology and allegory as being derived from ancient Egyptian systematization - the formulation for the individual of the virtuous and divine temple steps for the soul; to understand and apply to beome a creative worthwhile consciousness. His methodology evidences the real ancestral lineage of the OT and NT mythologies and he does this superbly well in tracing the image sources. He initially describes it as "revamped and terribly multilated Egyptianism" but recognizes there is much deeper layer of developed sentient meaning to be gleaned from the co-linking of scripture allegories, once perceived - that at least matches if not surpassing the original increment of the ancient mythologies. The co-linking of allegories provides conclusive evidence of layered sophisticated meaning. He starts by stating that Christianity must acknowledge its parentage in a pagan (called ancient primitive) past and that only by such recognition and regaining of its parentage will the sublime be comprehended - its true nobler splendor. Convincingly, he traces the Egyptian Jesus, Egyptian Lazarus, Egyptian Bethany, and the two Egyptian Maries. Egypt knelt at the shrine of the Madonna and child, Isis and Horus and Egypt had long known Jesus, Iusa - born of immaculate parenthood, circumcised, baptized, tempted, glorified on the mount, persecuted, resurrected, and elevated to heaven. Egypt had listened to the Sermon on the Mount, and the Sayings of Iusa for ages. But Egypt's Christ was not a living person and neither was it historicized in Judean times - but exists at all times. In other words the Gospels "life" of Jesus turns out to be out to be nothing but the garbled and fragmentary copy of the Egyptian and other prototypes, never lived. But the light of Egypt Occidental religion can now find its way from medieval darkness to sunlit truth. The Dark Ages can now be brought to their dismal end means there is more to the later-day allegories than former - a way for the construction by the individual of that long sought divinity requires a much greater comprehension of the allegorical methodology.

In stating this Kuhn deeply comprehends that the NT largely replicates and enhances the types in the OT in a particular Hebraic way of thought and that the original stories in form came from early Mediterranean/Eastern sources and that the final culmination and apocalyptic scenes of Revelation point back to and remember OT precedents ("historically" referenced and allegorical conjoined links) and these then become motifs for higher perception of both the virtuous and disreputable psychological elements in all ages at all times. The purveyors of the OT and NT were taking very real but mythological, portrayed precedents and elaborating these with partial "historical" recollections of the elements in all events, to portray the forward and backward steps that living creativity confronts - the divine focused element and systematization of the creative element within each individual - the Christ within - the temple covering of the soul and heart. This is as far removed from the literal and historicized ruse Christianity that we are duped with in the mediums of today. Readers are capable of taking this knowledge much further and seeing the real message in Scriptural writings (yet to be disclosed) if allegorical appreciation is developed. This strictly opposes the static legalism, literalism and deadly indoctrination of the illiterate purveyors of a so-called naïve truth and this opportunity has been more starkly available since the pick struck the Rosetta Stone in 1796. Kuhn has traced original Hebraic meanings and documents that many others have seen the same revelations down the centuries of time - but the poetry of deep allegorical meaning has remained in the hands of a few. The tide has turned. A great read for anyone with an open mind and willing to sing a new higher song of joyful and inspiring eternal hope in divinity - we are yet to revive.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Church Revealed, August 2, 2005

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Mary L. Wood (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who is this King of Glory? (Paperback)

Alvin Kuhn presents an extensively researched study of the origins of Christianity in Egyptian and Greek history and of the tragic efforts of the early church to cover up those origins and to adapt the gospels to the ignorance of the people; people made ignorant by the burning of libraries and closing of universities by that same church. Despite the present day trend toward fundalmentism, I think the educated public is ready for the truth, for a faith that is believable, and for a Cristos that is centered in the heart of the individual. Since this book was written in 1943, most of us would have been deprived of its wealth of knowledge concerning this important aspect of our lives had someone not chosen to have it reprinted. The studies by Egyptologist, Gerald Massey, on whose work Kuhn bases much of this treatise, is now also available and is a work of fact and truth supporting Kuhn's revelation of a corrupt church.